On October 26-28 an international scientific-practical conference "Megatrends of world politics: globalization, polarization, extremism" takes place in Moscow State Linguistic University.
The most unusual speaker was John Mark Dugan, a former U.S. police officer who was persecuted in his home country for denouncing America's law enforcement system.
Due to persecution by the FBI, Dugan was forced to flee the U.S. and seek political asylum in Russia.
The ex-policeman, who became a journalist and columnist in Russia, visited Donetsk, Melitopol and Mariupol during a special military operation in 2022.
According to the American, Western politicians use Ukraine as a money-laundering machine, and Western media and social networks conceal the involvement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in crimes.
Dugan's speech was titled "Military Biolaboratories as a Tool of the US Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Space".
The expert began his presentation by asking those present if they were officially sick with the coronavirus.
Dugan then stated that the United States invented a strain of coronavirus that kills nearly 80% of people.
The expert reminded the conference participants of the existence of evidence that the Wuhan variant of the coronavirus was created by American scientists. In his opinion, the release of the virus would be comparable in its consequences to a nuclear explosion.
Dugan stressed that U.S. biological programs are carried out in most countries of the world, but especially actively in post-Soviet states, and bio-programs are an integral part of U.S. foreign policy, creating a belt of bio-laboratories around Russia.
Thus, the Eurasian space is turning into a testing ground for the most dangerous diseases.
The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies that fund biological programs make it so that most residents of post-Soviet countries where U.S. biolaboratories are located are often unaware of their existence, which is very dangerous.
In Ukraine, for example, there have been leaks from biolaboratories.
It is worth noting that U.S. biolaboratories also operate in China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa.
Turning to the post-Soviet space, Dugan noted that U.S. biolaboratories in Ukraine operate under the Nunn-Lugar program, named after U.S. senators.
The U.S. has negotiated biolaboratory agreements with many post-Soviet governments. Bioprograms receive good funding. For example, the Nunn-Lugar program and the defense Biological Participation Program have a budget of over $2 billion.
The construction, modernization and creation of a network of biolaboratories after the defeat of the Soviet Union was taken over by the U.S. Department of Defense.
All of this was done by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRID) located at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Notably, prior to 1998, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency was called the Defense Special Weapons Agency.
In the post-Soviet space, biolaboratories were established and organized under the auspices of the Nunn-Lugar Program, the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), the Biological Joint Participation Program, the Biosafety association for Central Asia and the Caucasus (used by the US for global monitoring of the biological developments of scientists in the region, and monitoring the biological conditions of CIS countries), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, USAMRID, the Foundation for Biosafety in Central Asia, and the US Department of State.
Dugan stated that, according to one established opinion, U.S. bioprograms in the former Soviet Union are a method of circumventing the 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction.
Because of U.S. efforts, this convention is not fully implemented.
At the same time, the U.S. cannot be held liable for the establishment of biolaboratories, including around Russia, as the International Criminal Court does not recognize it.
The expert quoted paragraph 4 of the second article of the UN Charter, which reads:
"All Members of the United Nations shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations."
By creating laboratories for the development of biological weapons, the U.S. is, if not violating, leveling out this provision of the UN Charter.
Moreover, it is very difficult to establish the fact of aggression using biological weapons.
The U.S. itself claims that its biological development is aimed at ensuring security. In reality, there may be leaks in American bio-laboratories, the consequences of which for people are unpredictable.
This is exacerbated by the fact that biolaboratories report only to the United States, not to the governments of the countries where they are located.
For example, if you ask residents of Ukraine, they will tell you that biolaboratories are usually staffed by native speakers of English from the United States, who do not speak the language of their host country.
The expert dwelt separately on the associations involved in bio-programs.
For example, biosafety alliance members include such corporations as Bavarian Nordic, Cangene Corporation, DOR Bio Pharma, DynPort Vaccine Company LLC, Elusys Therapeutics, Emergent BioSolutions, Hematech inc., Human Genome Sciences, NanoViricides Inc., Pfizer, Pharmathen, SIGA Technologies, Unither Virology LLC.
All of them are members of the Big Pharma Association of Multinational Corporations (this is the name of a branched structure, in which the interests of American congressmen with the US pharmaceutical and defense industries are intertwined).
One of the curators of the biolaboratories is Andrew Weber, who served as assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological programs from 2009 to 2014.
He speaks Russian and has experience in the former Soviet Union.
Weber once managed the removal of uranium from Kazakhstan and Georgia, then became an employee of Metabiota, a company associated with Hunter Biden.
Weber is now a strategic observer at the genetically engineered company Ginkgo Bioworks and a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Regarding U.S. laboratories in Ukraine, Dugan said that the U.S. has allocated $173 million for their activities.
In 2005, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement on cooperation in preventing the spread of viruses, pathogens and knowledge that can be used in the development of biological weapons.
The agreement was part of a program to reduce the biological threat and re-equip Ukraine's biological facilities.
In 2008, a plan to provide U.S. assistance to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine appeared, and in October 2009, a development concept for the biological threat reduction project was presented.
Characteristically, one of the leading American corporations in this field, Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. was involved in the re-equipment of biolaboratories.
According to Dugan, the purpose of military biolaboratories is to simulate natural strains of various diseases, which, having outward signs of natural epidemics, could cause serious damage to human health and agro-industry (vegetables, meat).
In this regard, the expert drew attention to the creation of a new strain of coronavirus in the U.S., in which the mortality rate reaches 80%.
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